Jill Carroll
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Jill Carroll (b. 1977? in Michigan) is a freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq on January 7, 2006 by Iraqi insurgents.
Carroll was reporting in Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor. She had also worked as a commentator for news networks such as MSNBC. She had been in Iraq since October 2003.
On January 7, Carroll, along with an interpreter and driver travelled to the Adel district of Baghdad to interview Adnan al-Dulaimi, a Sunni politician. After discovering that Al-Dulaimi was not at his office, they were about to leave when they were ambushed by masked gunmen. The man who had been driving Carroll and her interpreter managed to escape, but she was kidnapped and the interpreter was executed by the gunmen.
American and Iraqi Security forcesare still trying to locate Jill Carroll.